Autobiography of a Wound: Poems

By Brynne Rebele-Henry

In ancient fertility carvings, artists would drill holes into the woman's body to signify penetrability, which is the basis of Autobiography of a Wound: allowing those wounds and puncture marks to speak through the fertility figures. The wounds are chronicled through letters and poems addressed to F (F stands for the fertility carvings themselves, which are being addressed as one unified deity), and A (Aphrodite, who is being referenced as a general deity of womanhood, a figurine that reappears throughout the poems, and a symbol that is referenced or portrayed in almost every fertility figurine or carving). Autobiography of a Wound reconstructs the narrative surrounding female pathos and the idea of the hysteric girl.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822965674
• ISBN13: 9780822965671
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.8"